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BTS member Jimin has released a new solo single, “Smeraldo Garden Marching Band (feat. Loco),” along with a whimsical music video. The track, off the singer’s forthcoming LP Muse, was loosely inspired by the Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and features South Korean rapper Loco.

Jimin collaborated with producers Pdogg, Ghstloop, and Evan, who also contributed to his debut solo album, Face. During the production of Face, the group casually began calling themselves the Smeraldo Garden Marching Band. A press releases notes that “this playful idea eventually became a reality,...

Exclusive: In a move that ought to make fans of The Beatles twist and shout, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes and his Neal Street Productions have set plans to make four separate theatrical films — one on each of the members of music’s most famous and enduring band.

Mendes will direct all four of the films, and this marks the first time Apple Corps Ltd. and The Beatles – Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison – have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film.

Mendes conceived this grand vision. He’ll tell interconnected stories, one from each band member’s point of view. The dating cadence of the films will be revealed closer to the films’ release. I’m told they are locking down writers quickly.

This is perhaps the most ambitious project Deadline has revealed exclusively since...

Veteran news producer Bill Geddie, who is best known for co-creating The View with Barbara Walters, has died. He was 68.

Cause of death was reportedly due to coronary-related factors.

“He was a big deal in TV, but at home he was an even bigger than life husband and dad,” said Geddie’s family in a statement. “He had a genuine love for television and entertainment. He would try everything and did it well — screenwriting, recording podcasts, playing guitar, writing songs, and loved a wide range of music from country to jazz. His favorite band was The Beatles, and he never thought he would have the opportunity to meet one of his personal heroes Paul McCartney in person, but his dream came true. The question wasn’t who did he meet, but rather who didn’t he meet?”

“He enjoyed connecting with people, and we know we are not the only...

Ana de Armas is set to take the title role in 'Waiting for Helen,' a noir thriller directed by Kevin Pollak.

The Cuban actress came to prominence last year with her performance as holographic companion Joi in 'Blade Runner 2049,' opposite Ryan Gosling.

In 'Waiting for Helen,' she will play a waitress who may be an innocent patsy or a sadistic sociopath.

According to the official synopsis: "A detective tells a stranger the story of an attractive, young waitress named Helen, who befriended a customer and was asked to help prove her husband's infidelity. People end up dead."

The detective must then prove Helen is either innocent or guilty before the night is over, or her life will be.

Projects in the pipeline for de Armas include crime drama 'Three Seconds,' alongside Rosamund Pike; Danny Boyle's musical comedy based on the music of The Beatles; and 'The Night Clerk,' about a voyeuristic hotel clerk who becomes the subject of a murder investigation, which also stars Tye Sheridan and Helen Hunt.

Pollak, best known for his roles in 'The Usual Suspects,' 'A Few Good Men,' and 'The Whole Nine Yards,' will also star in the movie.

John Cale Liverpool Sound City, UK Friday 26th May 2017

Fifty years on and it is time to remember one of the most innovative albums ever impressed onto wax. A delicious dark and jagged confection of nihilism and sulky sophistication unlike it's Liverpudlian counterpart Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, also now fifty, but which was sunny, funny and a bit vaudeville. Both represent a pair of wildly different bookends. The Velvet Underground and Nico was then a monumental, commercial flop, whilst the Beatles album sold in the millions. With half a century under its belt of shiny studded leather, the Velvets album now has an arc of influence that continues to reach into the hearts of those who wish to create a positive noise.

There is something incongruous about the weather, it is clammy and warm, and the sun is blinding, and yet the music we await really should be...

Growing up my two favourite things in life were Star Wars and The Beatles, so I'd imagine that ten-year-old Kevin would have absolutely lost his shit at this mashup which remakes The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album with Star Wars inspired lyrics. Jude Kelley and Dan Amrich, who record together under the name Palette-Swap Ninja, have been working on this Star... Read More...

Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:   Parody Album of the Day: Every song from The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band has been spoofed so it's a plot song for Star Wars, and together they retell the whole movie. Start with "Princess Leia's Stolen Death Star Plans"/"With Illicit Help From Your Friends" below (via Paste).   Movie Franchise Parody of the Day: Do the Fast and Furious movies all seem the same to you? Here's an animated parody of the franchise explaining why:   Board Game of the Day: Here's a look at the new The Thing board game Infection at Outpost 31 from Mondo and Project Raygun:   Cosplay of...

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Happy Leap Day - and Leap Year, too, of course. And if you're one of the few who happen to be born on this day, happy birthday - finally! Leap Day is literally the rarest of dates on which anything can happen, but it's not without its merits and its not without its share of historical happenings. It's just that it gets a lot fewer of them, as a result of a cruel quirk of the Gregorian calendar. In case you've written this day off as just an extra 24 hours tacked randomly onto the shortest month, well here's a list...

Netflix has just unveiled its latest original series, and it's got a truly novel twist. The animated children's series Beat Bugs will feature a soundtrack made up of classic tunes by legendary band The Beatles. The songs will be performed by today's top artists, and will seemingly serve as a backdrop for the stories being told in the cartoon.

Here's the trailer:

Beat Bugs: Netflix original series w/ songs made famous by The Beatles, performed by today's top artists. Aug 2016!https://t.co/Sbc05xCWlT

— Netflix Us (@netflix) February 10, 2016

Here's an excerpt of the Press Release for the series:

Beat Bugs incorporates songs from the Lennon/McCartney 'Northern Songs' catalogue, to tell uplifting and life-affirming stories filled with hope and melody. World-leading artists, animators and writers have come together to work on this extraordinary show. The Beat Bugs are charming, funny, adventurous, and have a knack for getting themselves into mischief and mayhem.

Keith Richards, the Rolling Stones' unstoppable icon of sexual, six-stringed, blues-rock racket, has made no secret of his disdain for the Beatles' experimental music, specifically Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Speaking with Esquire, the guitarist said:"...the Beatles sounded great when they were the Beatles. But there's not a lot of roots in that music. I think they got carried away. Why not? If you're the Beatles in the '60s, you just get carried away—you forget what it is you wanted to do. You're starting to do Sgt. Pepper. Some people think it's a genius album, but I think it's a mishmash of rubbish, kind of like Satanic Majesties—'Oh, if you can make a load of shit, so can we.'" While a lot of people would disagree with Richards's assessment, it's funny that he likens Sgt. Pepper's to Their Satanic Majesties, the Stones' album that...

The Flaming Lips brought their psychedelic spectacle to Conan on Thursday night, teaming with Miley Cyrus for a mind-altering cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band epic "A Day in the Life." Check out the trippy results above.

During the song's first half, Cyrus is obscured as she scurries around under Coyne's massive silver cape. She emerges, wearing a silver wig, to sing lead during an electro-pop rendering of Paul McCartney's poppy middle section, sometimes resting her head on Coyne's chest. 

The cover is included on the Lips' recently released collaborative,...

Jimmy Kimmel Live threw a Halloween party on Hollywood Boulevard for their October 31st episode as the late night show invited the Flaming Lips and their "fwends" Grace Potter and Morgan Delt to cover a pair of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band tracks in the style of the Lips' own With a Little Help From My Fwends. The group performed a bonkers rendition of the Pepper's one-two punch of "With a Little Help From My Friends" and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."

Wayne Coyne and...

NBC has found the subject of its next adventure in event programming. The network is developing an event series about The Beatles, from “The Tudors” team of Michael Hirst, Ben Silverman and Teri Weinberg, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap on Friday. Also read: Beatles Documentary Sparks $100 Million Lawsuit Against Sony/Atv The eight-episode series, which would tell the story of Liverpool's most famous foursome, will be written and executive produced by “Tudors” creator/executive producer Hirst, with “Tudors” executive producers Silverman and Weinberg also on board to executive produce. The Fab Four project follows NBC event programming such as “The.

Just a few days before their studio smoke session, the Flaming Lips joined Miley Cyrus at the Tulsa stop on her Bangerz tour.

On stage, the gang performed the band's "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Part 1)" and were pelted with brassieres from the crowd.

Prior to the song, Lips' lead singer Wayne Coyne told the audience, "Forgive me if I f--k it up. I'm scared!" to which Miley replied, "You're scared? No, this is your f--king town..This song right here, it's called 'F--k Yeah Tulsa,' aka 'Yoshimi.'"

Check out a video of their performance below and look for the collaboration on "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" on the Flaming Lips' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band tribute album.

With Muppets Most Wanted in theaters this week, we give you some factoids you might not have known about these furry friends. 1. Kermit the lizard? Before he was a famous amphibian, Kermit began life as a reptilian creature and evolved into a frog over time. 2. Animal can be defined by five words: sex, sleep, food, drums and pain. 3. Floyd Pepper’s character is a direct reference to the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. 4. There’s always been a question mark regarding what exactly Gonzo is. Maybe it’s a hint that he has the same eyes as Big Bird. 5. In The Great Muppet Caper Fozzie and Kermit are identical twin brothers with the same...

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Washington, Oct 5: 'The Fifth Beatle', a comic based on the life of The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein will make its debut in Italy from 28 Oct

The graphic novel records the early years of The Beatles through the eyes of their manager, Epstein and follows their success story to the release of 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', Contactmusic reported.

The comic strip will be hitting the shelves three weeks before its official release and will be available outside Italy on 19 November. (Ani)...

The third episode of Glee Season 5 will feature a moving tribute to Cory Monteith.

Why not the September 26th opener? Because producers had already been hard at work on a double dose of The Beatles when Monteith tragically passed away of a drug overdose.

Indeed, the premiere will be titled "Love, Love, "Love" and will feature Will tasking New Directions with covering songs by this iconic group; while the second outing will be titled "Tina in the Sky with Diamonds" after Tina is nominated for Prom Queen.

The series will then release an album, "Glee Sings the Beatles," which will feature all the Glee music from the opening two episodes.

It hits stores on September 24 and its track list has now been released online:

"Yesterday" "Drive My Car" "Got To Get You Into My Life" "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" "Help" "A Hard Day's Night" "I Saw Her...

When "Glee" returns for Season 5, the music of the Beatles will accompany the show. Two full episodes are devoted to the celebration of this iconic band. Which songs will the kids sing? What sort of plot goes with the tunes?

We have the answer to both of those questions here.

Columbia Records will release a special "Glee"/Beatles album on Sept. 24 -- two days before the season premiere -- and has already posted the track listing for that album:

1. "Yesterday"

2. "Drive My Car"

3. "Got to Get You into My Life"

4. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"

5. "Help"

6. "A Hard Day's Night"

7. "I Saw Her Standing There"

8. "All You Need Is Love"

9. "Get Back"

10. "Here Comes the Sun"

11. "Something"

12. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

13. "Hey Jude"

14. "Let It Be"

This being "Glee," there has to be some sort of plot associated with these songs. In the season premiere, "Love,...

London, May 26: Abba's greatest hits collection has overtaken sales of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to become the UK's second biggest selling album of all time.

According to the Official Charts Company, both albums have sold over 5.1 million copies in the UK, but the Swedish band's 1992 greatest hits collection has now inched ahead of The Beatles' iconic 1967 album with 15,000 more sales, the Daily Star reported.

Bjorn Ulvaeus, who co-wrote many Abba hits, told the publication "it feels unreal, outselling the greatest record of all time." (Ani)...

Paul McCartney kicked off his "Out There!" tour in a big way. The Beatles alum played a show in Brazil over the weekend, surprising fans by playing Beatles songs that they had never heard live.

The 70-year-old singer dusted off Beatles tracks that had yet to be performed on stage, Billboard reports, including “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite,” "All Together Now," “Lovely Rita,” and “Your Mother Should Know” -- take a listen above. The songs were recorded at various times during the Beatles' career: "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" was featured on the band's 1967 album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," along with "Lovely Rita," while "Your Mother Should Know" is a track off of The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album, and "All Together Now" debuted on the "Yellow Submarine" soundtrack.

McCartney rounded out the performance with other beloved Beatles songs, including “Lady Madonna” and “Eleanor Rigby,...

London, April 1: A signed copy of The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" has been bought at auction in the Us for $290,500, BBC reported.

The selling price far exceeded the $30,000 originally estimated for the rare record.

It was bought by an unnamed buyer.

The copy of the album includes a high gloss cover and vinyl gatefold sleeve.

The album is believed to have been autographed by all four Beatles near its release in June 1967.

The Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, which ran the sale, described it as "one of the most spectacular jewels in our auction".

The previous record for.

Washington, Apr il 01: A copy of the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band autographed by all four band members sold at an auction for 290,500 dollars on Saturday.

The iconic album, which had been listed at 30K dollars before the sale, was purchased through Dallas-based Heritage Auctions by an unnamed buyer from the Midwest, ABC News reported.

According to a letter of authenticity posted on Heritage Auctions' website, the autographs of the band members were obtained in 1967, which is the same year the record was issued, with each of the Beatles signed next to his image on the inside spread of the album.

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Fans can start the countdown ... now. As reported by TheWrap, the production company, Ovow, has been given permission from The Beatles' Apple Corps to start work on a movie called "The Beatles Live!"

"The Beatles Live! Project is a collaborative global quest to find and reveal hidden films, sound recordings, stories, photographs, and other media artifacts that were captured during The Beatles' concert tours," Ovow says on the website for the film. "The best media and stories that we find will be showcased in a planned feature film about The Beatles’ concert tours. This project provides a one-time opportunity for the fans to collaborate with The Beatles in a planned feature film."

The project allows fans to upload digital content directly to the movie's website, as well as offering additional options for fans to submit non-digital media and write-up stories of their Beatles experiences.

"The ultimate goal: to combine footage,...

This article comes to us courtesy of Sf Weekly's All Shook Down.

By Ian S. Port

Forty-six years ago today, on Aug. 29, 1966, the Beatles played the final live concert of their careers at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Though many of the band's most timeless songs lay ahead of them, this Bay Area live date would mark the end of the Beatles as a touring entity. Freeing themselves from the burdens of live performance allowed the Liverpool foursome to become ever more daring and experimental in their studio work, which had already begun with the then-three-week-old Revolver, and would continue with the White Album, and, of course, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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While the band members of the band apparently knew it would be their final live show, the audience didn't. Listening to bootlegs of the set, one is struck by the tsunami of screaming fans in the audience,...

John Lennon's former home has gone up for sale for £15 million. The late music legend wrote a number of tracks for The Beatles' eighth studio album, the seminal 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', at the house in Weybridge, Surrey, which was home to John and his first wife Cynthia between 1964 and 1968. Beatles fanatics might like to get their hands on the pricey property - which John purchased for just £20,000 on July 15, 1964 on the advice of the band's accountants Dr. Walter Strach and James Isherwood - as it was also featured in 1988 documentary film 'Imagine: John Lennon'. As well as writing Beatles songs in the house, named Kenwood, John is...

The Jimi Hendrix biopic now titled "All Is By My Side" will feature Outkast rapper Andre Benjamin (a.k.a. Andre 3000) as the legendary guitarist, but it won't feature any of Hendrix's signature songs. Instead, the film will include Benjamin's brand new renditions of cover songs that were favored by Hendrix, including tunes by the Beatles, Chicago bluesman Muddy Waters and more, according to Rolling Stone.  The Hendrix estate, which controls the rights to the singer-guitarist's catalog, didn't authorize the film and therefore won't allow his songs to appear. Among the songs Benjamin will perform are the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," The Troggs' "Wild Thing," Waters'...

Outkast's Andre Benjamin might not be able to perform any Jimi Hendrix songs in his upcoming biopic about the late great rocker, but that doesn't mean he won't have any tracks to sing in the movie. The folks behind "All By My Side" are getting around the copyright issue with Hendrix's estate by having Benjamin perform a series of covers Hendrix did of other bands' music to help make the movie as realistic as possible.

It turns out that this is actually not that big of a deal for the movie's creators. Producer Sean McKittrick told Rolling Stone that he never went to Experience Hendrix, the group that controls the copyrights for Hendrix's songs, because he knew that they likely wouldn't need to use them.

"This is the story of Jimi being discovered as a backup musician and how he went to London and became Jimi Hendrix," he said, saying...

There's been a lot of speculation over which songs/recordings the producers of All Is By My Side (the upcoming Jimi Hendrix biopic starring OutKast's André 3000, currently filming in Ireland) will or won't have at their disposal without the approved consent of the Jimi Hendrix estate. In what I can't help but think is a semi-conniving sidetrack to Experience Hendrix LLC's blatant disapproval of the production, it's been announced (via Rolling Stone) that the film (set during Hendrix's pre-fame years in London, roughly 1966-1967) will instead feature new recordings of André 3000 performing many of the songs Hendrix himself covered during that time period.

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According to producer Sean McKittrick, the soundtrack (which may or may be released as an album along with the film's projected 2013 released date… although, come on, how could it not?) features Mr. André Benjamin...

The Bee Gees made their mark on pop culture with their contributions to 'Saturday Night Fever.'

By Fallon Prinzivalli

Robin Gibb

Photo: Getty Images

The disco-music world lost another soldier just days after its queen, Donna Summer, passed away. On Sunday, Bee Gees member Robin Gibb died after a long battle with colon and liver cancer.

The musical group composed of Gibb and his brothers Barry and Maurice reinvented disco in the late 1970s and became a mainstream success. But it was the inclusion of their music in the John Travolta film "Saturday Night Fever" that really put their stamp on pop culture.

The band of brothers composed and performed a majority of the songs on the soundtrack, and up until Whitney Houston's musical collection for "The Bodyguard," it was the best-selling soundtrack of all time. Producer Robert Stigwood had approached the Bee Gees after the film...

The Bee Gees made their mark on pop culture with their contributions to 'Saturday Night Fever.'

By Fallon Prinzivalli

Robin Gibb

Photo: Getty Images

The disco-music world lost another soldier just days after its queen, Donna Summer, passed away. On Sunday, Bee Gees member Robin Gibb died after a long battle with colon and liver cancer.

The musical group composed of Gibb and his brothers Barry and Maurice reinvented disco in the late 1970s and became a mainstream success. But it was the inclusion of their music in the John Travolta film "Saturday Night Fever" that really put their stamp on pop culture.

The band of brothers composed and performed a majority of the songs on the soundtrack, and up until Whitney Houston's musical collection for "The Bodyguard," it was the best-selling soundtrack of all time. Producer Robert Stigwood had approached the Bee Gees after the film...

Adele's unstoppable 21, which is closing in on 9 million in sales in the U.S. (making our prediction that it will likely become the first diamond record in the states since Usher's 2004 Confessions set on the nose), just blasted past Michael Jackson's 1982 classic Thriller on the U.K. all-time bestseller list, according to NME.

21 is now the fifth best-selling album in the U.K. with staggering sales of 4,274,300 copies since its release in January 2011, besting Thriller's sales by about 500 units.

Her sales are not that far off the next two albums – Oasis's What's the Story Morning Glory and Abba's Gold: Greatest Hits – on the list either, though she's got a ways to go before she reaches the list's top two spots, which are owned by The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at #2 (5.04 million) and Queen's Greatest Hits at #1 (5.83 million records sold).

In the 15 months since its release,...

The classic 1968 animated feature "Yellow Submarine" showcasing music by the Beatles continues to be carefully restored frame-by-frame for a special DVD release May 28, 2012.

'Specialists' have been working for months to individually clean each frame of the film by hand, according to Beatles' holding company Apple Corps Ltd.

Automated software was not chosen for the restoration, because of the delicate nature of the hand-drawn artwork.

The musical fantasy depicts surreal cartoon versions of the Beatles and images from some of their psychedelic songs, with compositions including "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "Eleanor Rigby".

"Yellow Submarine", directed by George Dunning for United Artists (UA) and King Features Syndicate, is set in 'Pepperland', a paradise protected by "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".

But the land falls under a surprise attack by the music-hating 'Blue Meanies' who seal the band inside a music-proof bubble, immobilizing the Pepperlanders and draining the countryside of color.

A hologram of deceased rapper Tupac Shakur stole the show at Coachella 2012, capturing the fascination of more than 100,000 fans at the annual music festival, and sparking a wave of reactions across Twitter and other social media.

Accolades for the high-definition projection, which performed as part of a live set by rappers Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, lauded it for its impeccable details. The lifelike hologram captured 'Pac's athletic swagger and iconic swag as it romped around the stage, brandishing tattoos and Timberland boots.

Details like these are what allow audiences, even large ones like at Coachella, to suspend disbelief. Fortunately, such details happen to be the speciality of Av Concepts, the production company that so convincingly resurrected Tupac. As a small company in a competitive industry, it must to prioritize client relationships and adopt new technology to succeed -- and pave the way forward. Their latest win is just case-in-point.

The classic 1968 animated feature "Yellow Submarine" showcasing music by the Beatles continues to be carefully restored frame-by-frame for a special DVD release May 28, 2012, with 'specialists' working for months to individually clean each frame of the film by hand, according to Beatles' holding company Apple Corps Ltd.

Automated software was not chosen for the restoration, because of the delicate nature of the hand-drawn artwork.

The musical fantasy depicts surreal cartoon versions of the Beatles and images from some of their psychedelic songs, with compositions including "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "Eleanor Rigby".

"Yellow Submarine", directed by George Dunning for United Artists (UA) and King Features Syndicate, is set in 'Pepperland', a paradise protected by "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".

But the land falls under a surprise attack by the music-hating 'Blue Meanies' who seal the band inside a music-proof bubble, immobilizing the Pepperlanders and draining the countryside of color.

For a while there in the early '90s, you couldn't escape hearing Aerosmith blasting out of every radio station from every car stereo across the nation. "Livin' On The Edge," "Crying," "Amazing" and "Crazy" marked a tremendous run for the band that was capped off by what is pretty much their last massive hit, "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" for Michael Bay's "Armageddon" (and it should be noted the director also helmed the band's video for "Falling In Love (Is Hard On The Knees)"). That was nearly fifteen years ago. And as the band fades in relevance (seriously, look at that picture) -- assisted by Steven Tyler's recent stint on "American Idol" -- they are hoping they can take one last stab at summer soundtrack glory.

The upcoming "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" will feature a new/old tune from Aerosmith entitled "Legendary Child." The track is...

21 has moved past Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to take #7 spot on the list.

By Gil Kaufman

Adele's <i>21</i>

Photo: Columbia Records

Adele just keeps rolling up records. The singer's sophomore album, 21, may finally have lost its perch at the top of the U.S. albums chart, but its continued strong sales in England have helped catapult it above one of the all-time greats on the list of the U.K.'s best-selling albums in history.

According to the Official Charts Company, after recently moving ahead of Michael Jackson's Bad, Adele scooted up another notch on the U.K. list when 21 jumped up to #7, passing Pink Floyd's 1973 prog rock masterpiece, The Dark Side of the Moon. To date, 21 has sold 4.14 million copies in the U.K., putting it within spitting distance of the #6 album, Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms, which is just 12,000 copies ahead. Adele is moving...

"This is my boomstick!" Bruce Campbell was already a full-fledged horror icon before reciting that unforgettable line from Army of Darkness, but this put the cherry on top. "Boomstick" was Campbell's "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", his "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", his "Stairway to Heaven".

Here at Doctor Gash's Tip of the Scalpel column, we're used to paying tribute to the real baddies of horror. The nastier character you portrayed, the more love you'll get here. Campbell is the rare Scalpel honoree who's recognized for his portrayal of a hero. Throughout his illustrious career Campbell has appeared in dozens of movies and television shows, but it's one character in particular that we all fell in love with that earned Campbell his Tip of the Scalpel nod. I'm talking, of course, of Ashley J. "Ash" Williams.

Campbell and The Evil Dead director Sam Raimi met in high school, and...

The Beatles famously argued that "all you need is love," but you'll need more than that to take home a piece of Beatles memorabilia.

A guitar amplifier used during the recording of the Beatles' Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band albums will be up for auction next month.

Reuters reports that the amplifier, used by the late George Harrison, who died ten years ago today, is expected to bring in between $80-$100,000 when it comes up for bid on Dec. 15.

The sale is being handled by Bonhams, a privately owned British auction house.

"Very few amps used by the Beatles have come to auction before, and to find one that was used on two such significant albums is truly rare and exciting," Bonhams Entertainment Memorabilia Consultant Stephen Maycock said in a press release announcing the upcoming sale.

Until earlier this year, the amp's owner didn't know it used to belong to Harrison.

London, Nov 5: An adapted sleeve for the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' has been named the world's rarest album cover.

The modified version was doctored from Sir Peter Blake's original artwork, and features the faces of music executives from Capitol Records in place of the Fab Four and other notable figures.

The rare album sleeve is said to be worth about 70,000 pounds and only about 100 were reportedly made.

It was created to celebrate the success of the record, which was released in June 1967, the BBC reported.

The artwork is one of five Beatles album sleeves to feature in the top 10, compiled.

Stella McCartney had the company of her famous friends last night to celebrate her 40th birthday. Kate Hudson brought Matt Bellamy along to Asprey House, near Hyde Park Corner, and Gwyneth Paltrow was seen booking it out to her car afterward, holding two celebratory mugs that read "Stella's 40th" and featured a picture of young Stella. Paul McCartney and his fiancée, Nancy Shevell, flew in for the occasion, as did designer Tom Ford. Bono, his wife Ali Hewson, and Kate Moss were out for the long haul. They accompanied Stella for some late fun at the Groucho Club. Stella was decked out for the festivities in a blue-sequined dress of her own design while Kate Moss paired her Azarro jumpsuit with one of Stella's bags. Kate Hudson chose to go with a number from Elie Saab. Kate Moss's own significant other, Jamie Hince, wasn't able to join in, since...

After much deliberation Disney have put a kibosh on plans to remake the 1968 Beatles’ animation Yellow Submarine.

The reboot - which was being developed by ImageMovers Digital and had Robert Zemeckis on directing duties - has ceased to a halt before filming even got off the ground.

Up until now casting talks had been in full swing with that Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell, all associated with the forthcoming project.

It has been suggested that the poor performance of Zemeckis’ Mars Needs Moms, is linked to the film’s sudden cancellation. But sources tell ComingSoon.net that the official decision was made quietly several months ago.

Based on The Beatles’ song, the original 1968 animation featured art direction by Heinz Edelmann.

The story is set in an undersea paradise inhabited by hippies whose harmonious lifestyles are protected by Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

When the...

The 53rd Grammy Awards are upon us, and they bring with them dozens of artists competing in 109 different categories. The performers on the show — which airs live on Sunday, February 13 — include Eminem, Cee Lo Green, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Drake, Arcade Fire, Justin Bieber, Miranda Lambert, Katy Perry, Muse, B.o.B, Usher, Bruno Mars, Jaden Smith and Janelle Monae. It promises to be one of the biggest nights in the history of music, and MTV News will be bringing you wall-to-wall coverage of the big event.

But the awards are the big draw, and just as the MTV Newsroom Blog does with the MTV Video Music Awards, here are a series of guides to some of the biggest categories on the docket. This time around: Album of the Year.

Over the past few years, no prize at the Grammy Awards has been a greater wild card than Album of the Year.

'He had one common message: to spread love through music,' one supporter tells MTV News of the late music icon.

By Vaughn Trudeau Schoonmaker, with additional reporting by Matt Harper

Fans pay tribute to John Lennon in Strawberry Fields in New York City

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Thirty years after John Lennon's death, fans and curious bystanders made their way to Central Park's Strawberry Fields on Wednesday (December 8) to pay their respects to the late Beatle.

Despite the cold weather, hundreds were gathered at any given moment to leave gifts, sing his songs and remember the music icon whose message of peace and unity still burns strong today.

"I think it's very spiritual," Flora Bromley said. "Everybody is just singing the songs. It's just a good feeling coming here."

"You can see what Lennon did with all the people," Carlos Rivera noticed. "You feel at home."

Some people just...

Now that the Beatles have finally made their entry into the digital age (in an official capacity, at least), the band is enjoying a bit of a renaissance (one they seem to enjoy once every few years or so; the last one came during the release of "The Beatles: Rock Band" in 2009). Several of their albums shot right to the top of the iTunes sales chart, and you can expect at least one or two to make a major impact on next week's Billboard album sales chart (which now incorporates older titles into the new stuff). Any excuse to re-discover the Beatles is usually a good one, as they are the rare band with the work that actually backs up their lofty reputation (which is no small feat, considering that reputation is "greatest band ever") and their songs always seem to be revealing subtle twists and turns even five decades later.

Courtesy: Apple RecordsLOS Angeles, California (X17online) - After only being on iTunes for 24 hours, several albums from the Beatles catalog scored a place in the Top 20. The albums were: Abbey Road, The White Album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Revolver and Rubber Soul. Also landing in the Top 20, Beatles 1967-1970, The Beatles 1962-1966 and the Beatles Box Set. In total, 59 Beatles' songs made the Top 100. Specific songs that scored big numbers: Let It Be, A Hard Day's Night and Yellow Submarine ... just to name a few. Two-dozen other songs landed outside the Top 100.

Five classic Fab Four LPs move into top 20 on iTunes albums chart after becoming available for download.

By Gil Kaufman

The Beatles

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It should come as no surprise that in the first 24 hours that the Beatles catalog was available on iTunes, Fab Four fans went on a bender.

After nearly a decade of waiting for official digital copies of the group's music on the leading download site, Beatle maniacs helped push five of the band's classic studio albums — Abbey Road (#7), The White Album (#8), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (#10), Rubber Soul (#18) and Revolver (#20) — into the top 20 tally on the iTunes albums chart. In all, eight Beatles titles crashed the top 20, including The Beatles 1967-1970 (#13), The Beatles 1962-1966 (#17) and the all-encompassing Beatles Box Set (#11).

That wasn't all, as Magical Mystery Tour came in at #21, Let It Be was just behind at #22, A Hard Day's Night charted at...

John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for The Beatles' song "A Day in the Life" have sold for a staggering $1.2 million (800,000 pound sterling) at an auction in New York. Lennon's scrawled notes were purchased by a private American collector, who bid by phone at the Sotheby's sale on Friday, June 18.

The double-sided sheet of paper features the late star's edits and corrections, written in black felt marker and blue ball point pen, with annotations in red ink. Pre-sale estimates predicted the item would only sell for between $500,000 (333,330 pound sterling) and 800,000 (533,300 pound sterling).

"A Day in the Life" was featured on The Beatles' Grammy-winning 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". This eighth studio album of the English rock group was released in June 1967 and received worldwide critical and commercial success.

Paul McCartney paid tribute to the late Jimi Hendrix during his headlining set at Britain's Isle of Wight festival on Sunday, June 13, admitting he was overwhelmed to learn the rocker was a big fan of The Beatles. The star regaled the audience with tales of his heyday with the Fab Four and, during one anecdote, he opened up about his little-known friendship with Hendrix in the 1960s.

He told fans, "I was really lucky to know Jimi and hang out with him a little bit in the 60s, he was a great guy. The biggest tribute we had from him was we (The Beatles) released (1967 album 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band') Sgt. Pepper on a Friday and then I went to see him on the Sunday and he learned it; how cool was that for me? Very cool!"

McCartney also played part of Hendrix's track "Purple Haze" during his massive 27-song set,...

With the upcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies I think it's safe to say that zombies are showing up everywhere. Horror, comedy, regency drama, and now a musical biopic of The Beatles. It's based on a novel by Alan Goldsher called Paul Is Undead and it will chronicle the story of an undead John Lennon as he leaves Liverpool, kills and reanimates a band, and then takes them on tour of terror across Europe and the States. This might sound like a joke but the production team behind it has some credentials after working on Erin Brockovich and Pulp Fiction.

The film will supposedly also feature cameos by Mick Jagger as England's greatest zombie slayer, Jesus Christ who admits they were bigger than him, and Yoko Ono as an Eighth Level Ninja Lord. I think we can expect her to literally break up the band. Now, if you think that pun is bad,...

John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the The Beatles' song "A Day in the Life" are expected to sell for as much as $700,000 when they go under the hammer in New York in June. The lyrics appear on a double-sided sheet of paper, which includes corrections and amendments made in red ink.

"A Day in the Life" is the final track on the band's 1967 "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album and recently came 26th in Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 greatest songs of all time poll. Lennon's writings aren't expected to break the record for Beatles lyrics, set by "All You Need Is Love", which fetched $1 million in 2005.

The lyrics sheet previously belonged to Beatles' road manager Mal Evans. The song itself has a historical element for The BBC banned it from being aired due to lyrics that encouraged drug use.